The SMB Foundation provides you with an edge for today's market. The SMB Foundation is a demanding, comprehensive, and thoughtful trading course. You will develop valuable trading skills that will enable you to profit in any market, from any location, and for your entire trading career. The SMB Foundation teaches you a craft-the craft of trading.Trading Topics and Skills:

The Fundamentals of Trading One Good Trade How to Find Stocks in Play Reading the Tape Reading Charts

Daily lesson plans have been prepared utilizing more than 200 written lectures so that you develop a powerful trading foundation for today's market. We identified what must be taught for a new trader to succeed in this market. And then we started writing. We wrote about all the trading skills and trading plays that new traders must be taught to be consistently profitable.

Classroom Lectures

Written lectures are supplemented with Classroom Lectures. You will watch videos of our Partners (Mike Bellafiore and Steve Spencer), Head Trader (GMan), and Senior Traders (JToma and others) teaching trading skills and trading plays to our new traders.

Trading Videos

We have captured our real-time trades and added audio commentary to profitable intraday setups. Imagine yourself at your trading station watching a trade captured in real time with audio commentary added from a market veteran. We will explain why we bought, why we sold, and most importantly what we were thinking.

SMB Real Time

Listen to SMB Capital trade daily. SMB traders share valuable trading information via our Live Audio Feed. Multiple trading rooms are run simultaneously by the traders on our desk. Listen to the Partners trade the market Open and Close. Or move to another call and listen to SMB Traders trade In Play stocks.

Trading Drills

SMB developed Trading Drills and Quizzes for our proprietary traders in NYC. There is a reason why professional teams scrimmage. Like a professional athlete, traders must practice under game-like conditions. You cannot just read some trading materials and then jump into the trading arena. You must drill on the trading skills necessary to compete in today's market.

Quizzes

SMB Quizzes reinforce what we teach. The SMB Foundation is a large and comprehensive training program, and we have designed the course so traders do not get lost in the material or miss the nuances of the lessons being taught. We use quizzes to summarize and focus on the most important points throughout the program.

Mentoring

The Partners and senior traders at SMB are experienced mentors, who have created a comprehensive system to develop fundamentally sound traders. While learning SMB trading skills, senior traders are accessible daily through the SMB Chat Room and the SMB Audio. One-on-one mentoring is added to guide traders through the process of building trading plays and review simulated trading.

SMB Trading Tools

SMB offers our SMB Trading Tools to assist new and experienced traders. SMB Stocks In Play, SMB Scanner and SMB Radar ensures that traders are in the best stocks. Learn how we work as a team to make money individually.

SMB FoundationThe SMB Foundation is unique, in that it is a SKILL BASED training program. Daily lesson plans have beencrafted using hundreds of written lectures, classroom lectures, trading videos, audio lectures, quizzes,simulated trading drills, one-on-one mentoring sessions, and daily execution drills to build a powerfultrading foundation. The SMB Foundation teaches a craft - the craft of trading.What the SMB Foundation is not, is a simple knowledge based program that asks traders to memorizetechnical patterns, indicators, and trading plays found in countless books and programs online. The hardtruth is that much of these technical patterns, indicators, and trading plays are worthless without thetrading skills necessary to trade them effectively. Statistically, trading skills take years of experience andlost money to develop, but SMB Capital reduces this learning curve by creating a demanding curriculumfocused on trading skills, followed by the development and execution of trading plays that work best forthe trainee.There are no secret trading plays that always work. Being a consistently profitable trader is about theadjustments made using trading skills. During the SMB Foundation trainees are taught how to buildtrading plays that work best for them. Instead of trainees memorizing trading plays withoutunderstanding how and why they work, trainees are taught a proprietary method to build trading playsusing the trading skills learned in the program. Trainees are mentored through this process, buildingsimple trading plays that work best for new traders and eventually building more robust trading playsspecific to the trainees trading personality. Armed with these skills, traders finishing the SMBFoundation are far more mentally and physically prepared to trade professionally, than any otherprogram available to the public in the United States. For traders, the SMB Foundation truly epitomizesthe old proverb: Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.A trainee does not have to have any prior trading experience before starting the SMB Foundation. SMBbuilds traders from the ground up. The training program is laid out over a 5 week calendar. Daily lessonplans have been crafted covering every minute of the trading day, from 8am to 6pm EST, includingweekend and evening written lectures and videos. Traders may choose to work through the SMBFoundation 5 week schedule like a trader at SMB Capital or spread the program out over two months toaccommodate any time conflicts (we regularly extend the program even further at no cost to thetrainee).Below is a list of the major categories covered in the SMB Foundation. Each category may containdozens of sub-topics made up of dozens of additional written lectures, trading videos, class roomlectures, audio lectures, drills, and quizzes:THE FIRST FOUR WEEKS WILL FOCUS ON SKILL DEVELOPMENT: STOCK SELECTION ONE GOOD TRADE THE 7 FUNDAMENTALS THE PLAYBOOK TECHNICAL ANALYSIS PSYCHOLOGY RISK MANAGEMENT TAPE READINGTHE LAST TWO WEEKS WILL FOCUS ON THE BUILDING AND EXECUTING OF TRADING PLAYS WITH ONE-ON-ONEMENTORING: TRADING PROCESS TRADER PERFORMANCE TRADE EXECUTION TRADING EDGE TRADING STRATEGIES TRADE SETUPSSMB trains traders on an individual bases remotely or in office. Trainees may start the SMB Foundationat a time that best suits their schedule. Being able to work through the program independently with amentor gives trainees a more personalized experience without having to compete for attention.Mentors usually work with no more than two trainees at a time through the SMB Foundation trainingprogram, assuring a trainee focused guidance. At the end of the SMB Foundation, and one-on-onementoring, trainees will receive a full evaluation on the skills they are doing well and what needsimproved; along with a road map to make trading a career. Trainees will be graded on 21 key attributesfound in consistently profitable traders at SMB and extended the opportunity to develop as a traderunder the coaching of SMB Capital mentors.